For that matter, most of the league saw what Boston Rajon Rondo did to the Heat with sixth-tenths of a second to play in a Jan. 6, 2010 Heat loss to the Celtics, including a LeBron James who had yet to join the Heat.

"Y'all seen it when Rondo got that one against y'all in the Triple-A," James said in the wake of Friday's 103-101 escape act in Minnesota. "So we stole it. We stole it."

Actually, the Heat stole a page from their own playbook, having failed to properly execute the set moments earlier.

"We kind of ran something similar to that a couple plays before that," Wade said. "I knew that I messed it up a little bit. At the time, we said we might have to come back to that."